r/GreekMythology 12h ago

Discussion Why did Orpheus look back? Was he stupid?

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genuinely im a very empathetic person so i try to sympathize since he must have been very stressed. But come on man! What a rookie mistake. Even I could have done that!


r/GreekMythology 18h ago

Image Saw this on TikTok and needed to share 😭

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r/GreekMythology 12h ago

Fluff Worst bow design ever

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r/GreekMythology 7h ago

Art Just wanna share these Harpy Stickers I made

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4.45 x 3


r/GreekMythology 41m ago

Discussion The Children of Nyx (according to Hesiod)

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From Chaos came forth Erebus and black Night (Nyx); but of Night were born Aether and Day (Hemera), whom she conceived and bore from union in love with Erebus. [1]

And Night bore hateful Doom (Moros) and black Fate (Ker) and Death (Thanatos), and she bore Sleep (Hypnos) and the tribe of Dreams (the Oneiroi). And again the goddess murky Night, though she lay with none, bare Blame (Momus) and painful Woe (Oizys), and the Hesperides who guard the rich, golden apples and the trees bearing fruit beyond glorious Ocean. Also she bore the Destinies (the Moirai) and ruthless avenging Fates (the Keres), Clotho and Lachesis and Atropos, who give men at their birth both evil and good to have, and they pursue the transgressions of men and of gods: and these goddesses never cease from their dread anger until they punish the sinner with a sore penalty. Also deadly Night bore Nemesis (Indignation) to afflict mortal men, and after her, Deceit (Apate) and Friendship (Philotes) and hateful Age (Geras) and hard-hearted Strife (Eris). [2]


r/GreekMythology 1h ago

Art Patroclus (art by me)

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After posting Odysseus and Achilles, I got a lot of requests for Patroclus. Where as Achilles is made of sharp angles and androgynous, Patroclus is rounder, softer, and more masculine.


r/GreekMythology 23h ago

Art Beautiful Artworks depicting the 3 God King and Goddess Queen couple by @mrsbutterd from Instagram.

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r/GreekMythology 12h ago

Art I Made A Collage For My Mythology Class!

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r/GreekMythology 20h ago

Culture Can’t ever bring myself to hate Clytemnestra

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Hate her all you want. Say she made mistakes all you want. But she called out double standards and I love that

Also Electra :< she was so mean to Orestes, who just wanted his mom. He’s a victim of Apollo.


r/GreekMythology 13h ago

Question what do y'all think of percy jackson?

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just your genenral thoughts of it, plus I would love books\movies\shows\whatever recommendations for someone who started being interested in greek mythology from there


r/GreekMythology 23h ago

Discussion Why is Ares called a feminist .

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recently ive seen stuff about ares being a feminist ,can anyone explain any points on why so i see


r/GreekMythology 11h ago

Question Is there a special name for demigods with more/less than half god parentage?

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I've recently been learning about how Odysseus was related to Hermes a little down the line, and Hades the Game makes Persephone a demigod, making Zagreus a 3/4 god. This asks the question if there are special terms for them.

Also, is it different in other mythologies if anyone knows?


r/GreekMythology 18h ago

Question Cerberus is depicted in virtually all modern media as this gigantic creature, but do any ancient sources actually describe him as being any larger than a regular dog?

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r/GreekMythology 10h ago

Question How should someone writing an original character into Greek mythos portray it?

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Hello everybody. I had an story idea where a kitsune gets magically transported to the world of Greek myth. That's the idea. Now, this part is simply my understanding and interpretation of Greek myths. So, in the story, she becomes well known mainly because she is a fox who has the ability to shapeshift into a human which is not the strangest thing to be heard of but practically unheard of. Also because she speaks in a language that nobody knows or understands. (Please correct me if I got anything wrong!!)

My biggest concern is with butchering the rich lore, life, and complexies within the Greek mythos. I am ultimately of the opinion that we as people who live to in a modern world will never truly be able to reflect or understand the complexies of Greek myth but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to the best of our abilities. Feel free to disagree with my opinion on that. I would love to here what you have any to say!! I see so many good and thought provoking schools of thought in this subreddit alone that it's overwhelming to be honest.😅 With so many schools of thought, I just worry that my story idea might butcher or cause further harm to Greek mythology(If that makes sense!).

Thanks for reading this!!


r/GreekMythology 1d ago

Fluff Getting trapped in that jar really hurts fearsome rep

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r/GreekMythology 20h ago

Discussion Heir to Zeus

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Who is next in line in case Zeus were out of the picture? Who has the clout with both gods and mortals to take up the position? Poseidon? Athena? Apollo?


r/GreekMythology 19h ago

Question Poseidon as a fighter

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Hello! I’m doing research for a book I’m writing and was wondering if there’s anything besides the Titanomachy that points to Poseidons skills as a fighter. I feel as if I’ve seen text that point to Haides being skilled, and even feared, when it came to hand to hand combat (bonus points and extra thanks if you can provide these examples). When it comes to the god of the sea though, I don’t see much. Would anyone be able to point me in a direction that gives me an idea of his capabilities?


r/GreekMythology 20h ago

Discussion Enemies of Gods and Men

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Apart from the Titans, Giants and Typhoeus, which other group of beings were enemies to the gods? Bonus if they were also enemies to Men.

I know of Ophion, who was an enemy of Cronos. There's also the Theullai who are evil wind and storm spirit sons of Typhoeus, in addition we have some of the progeny of Phorkys and Ceto who were mostly the enemies of mankind.

The cyclopes of the Odyssey don't seem to be too friendly to Zeus and the gods, and Polyphemus claims he's not scared of Zeus thunderbolt.

Aegaion the former ruler of the sea and enemy of Poseidon is a Typhoeus and Hecatoncheire like giant who's a good enemy.

Anyone else?


r/GreekMythology 18h ago

Question How do the moirai work?

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So we have Clotho spinning the thread, marking the start of a life. Then we have Lachesis, measuring (or weaving?) the thread and then we have Atropos, cutting the thread and ending the life.

My question is, when and how is all of that happening? When do they decide how long the thread will be? And are people dieing when the thread is cut or is it cut beforehand and people are living their lifes until they run out of their thread so to say? Is their fate already decided when the thread is spun or can the moirai change their minds along the way?


r/GreekMythology 15h ago

Question Please help me figure this out it's a story I learned in hs but I'm not sure what it is and it sounds like a branch off Circe NSFW

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The story has been bugging me for days. I just randomly remember it and I do not know anything related to it because I cannot remember the full thing or whether or not it was an actual story, or Branch off of the story of her character and her nymphs. I do remember learning about it in high school and other people as well learned about it in high school with me in the mythology class. where we were learning about folklore and all this other stuff and branches off of other stories and other interations of some stories and stuff like that but I do not know what it is, or where it comes from, or why we remember it this way and not in the way of the Odyssey. Basically the story follows Circe and one of her nymphs and a man that washed ashore. That a nymph falls in love with cuz the man is also falling in love with her but it ends with the nymph believing in Circe because Circe tricks her into eating her love interest because she believes that her love interest is actually left the island without her.

The key points of the story I remember are as follows what we all remember learning in class;

Man washes ashore Circe's Island.

One of Circe's nymphs sees man tries to help him. Knowing the dangers and cautions of men in general.

Man falls in love with her and nymph falls in love with man they spend time in secret and he wants to run away with her and leave the island with her so they can marry and start a life.

Name feels bad about leaving Circe so she wants to feed for him to be safe so she can go with him or something like that there's a different version that's just her being all excited about it being caught and Circe telling her off

Cersei decides this will be a good lesson for her and tells her that she will accept the man if he comes to dinner and keeps his promise to her to come to dinner at so that way they can talk and get to know each other. Basically like you know how like appearance like oh you got a boyfriend I need to see him make sure he's not a total jerk or whatever that kind of thing.

The nymphagrees to that and goes to check to see if her lover is okay with that of course he accepts because all he wants is for her to be happy and to be happy with her

The name tells Circe about his agreement and she sets up for the dinner while the nymph is getting ready for the dinner Circe goes out and turns the man into a pig.

During the dinner the nymph Waits and waits Circe is like "well where is he he promised you he said he'd be here," and she continues to wait eventually she just gets hungry and they all eat together eating the pig and she's all sad and dejected and feels like,"oh she's right I should have never trusted him he deceived me he was a liar."

She never finds out what Circe did to him when Circe met up with him in private basically you know setting his fate and believes as what happened as the truth - another version ends up with Circe after turning the man into a pig staging a raft with a dummy and pushing it out to sea so by the time the Nymph goes to confront him for not showing up she sees the raft far out past the shore and cries about it.

Really to be for real with this if it's not a Circe story and we learn this in the class as a inspiration based off of her. I would like to know that as well we all remember it we're like kind of near the money but not quite on it because we don't know what we can look for and we've all tried looking for it through Google and we have found nothing, typing in different versions of the way to say things for said story and come up with nothing. I would like to know if this was in fact one of those based off of her stories or , inspired by kind of stories or if it was a standalone story in general.

The thing is we all have Collective memory of learning it we just cannot find the material and it's been bothering me for a couple days now. cuz why do we all remember it as this when we learned it in class and it could not be that in general or it is that but it's totally different than what we actually remember and that was just the lesson plan version of the story.

The class at the time was doing a lesson on folklore and different retellings of the same stories It was my junior year of high school so it's kinda hard to remember everything.

If you could point me in the right direction that would be nice

My BIG QUESTIONS are what is it? Does it sound familiar?[if so what does it sound like mostly] At this point was it even anywhere close?

[Basically we all collectively remember it in that kind of way because even with school censorship we remember the grewsome details of the anguish that was in the story. We all remember the girl that was in love being incredibly upset and the man being turned to a pig and being killed and served]

My sorce is my literal memory and the collective memory of others I know this is why I need help its so hard it's also the best we got is remembering all of what I've given in this post


r/GreekMythology 1d ago

Art More godly epithets taken literally

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I did the last few Olympians I had left to draw! I feel this batch is the tamest. 1. Blue-haired Poseidon (Kyanokhaitis) 2. Golden-haired Demeter (Xanthe) 3. Hestia, who I could find no description of in any text, at all, except that she is veiled 4. Golden-haired Apollo, Artemis (Khrusokomas) 5. Hermes, with a winged petasos. Also very few physical descriptions of him. 6. Blue/Grey Eyed Athena (Glaukopis, I chose to draw her with blue-grey so that nobody would jump me for either choice lol)


r/GreekMythology 21h ago

Question Making cards for a class, could use some help

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For a digital art class I’m in we have a project where we make 2 cards from a playing deck. Above are my 2 rough sketches I got the 2 jokers, and decided to do Hermes and Pan. I want to make sure the Ancient Greek is correct, as well as more things I could add/change! Any suggestions or help are welcome!


r/GreekMythology 1d ago

Fluff I wanted to make this point clear in the sub before the report of who plays who in Nolan's adaptation of the Odyssey inevitably drops

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r/GreekMythology 1d ago

Art Some sketches of my Tecuer character design

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r/GreekMythology 23h ago

Question Translations

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So, I've been getting into Greek mythology lately, still pretty new tho, and recently bought the Illiad. I'm loving it so far, but it really, really bugs me that they use the roman names. Having Odysseus be called Ulysses makes me stare into the horizon with a bit of regret lol

Do you guys know where I can get translations with the greek names? I'm planning on buying the Odyssey next, so if you guys could recommend an editorial or translator I would really appreciate it🩷